is a flowering of new year.
After the solstice the sun begins, rising in the sky, the path to new life: plants feel this year even before the call astral.
In one corner there is a small Japanese maple that is another example of the winter that has not won at all: it has lost the little red leaves of autumn, and still retain some green leaves. The most beloved, remember the landscapes of Japan visited almost fifty years before and the favorite colors of autumn. Perhaps the last external image before closing itself, the attachment to the world's last words: "He still has all the leaves" I had brought into the room, in front of her because she saw her. In the garden was empty chair where still two weeks before, the warmth of a winter sun had sat contemplating the buds of the camellia, which pushed to exit. Now everything is blooming, she and I knew that these early blooms are swept in a single night of icy wind, but in the meantime they give you hope, peace and the desire to protect them as much as possible.
The flowers and the garden with her and talk to our soul, with the way in which a group of people tried and tries to flower in the chill of secret gardens desolate souls. Carla had written in one of his most dense in which to return us all the way events are often too hard to manage to leave room for joy. This paper refer to all friends can appreciate it and also to all those who, without knowing they are doing everything to destroy the possibility that such experiences can continue.
I wish all those who still remind me of a number of Carla and her life that this bloom is a message of Happy New Year.
Being There (Carla Melazzini)
"I stole a garden," said heavily-It 's mine. It is not no one else. No one wants it, nobody cares, nobody goes in there. Maybe all the plants have dried, do not know ...
Nobody has the right to take, because I'm the only person who cares. The others, no. The others keep locked up and let him die! "... ..
"A secret garden?" Colin said, "What do you mean? Explain "
" But do not you understand? "said Mary, cobble together the words" do not understand that if the history of the garden we know only two ... and you could find the door, we could go together in secret, and nobody would know that we have inside? We could call our garden, and you could go and play together, to work the land, to revive the flowers ... "
..." It 'was the magical force that is in this garden that made me stand up and made me realize that I can grow into a man! " (F.Burnett-The Secret Garden)
From the "Dictionary of Symbols"
"The garden is a place of growth, the growing phenomena of life and interiors. .. The wall of the garden retains the internal forces that flourish.
There is penetrated only through a narrow gate, which is often the dreamer should try driving around the garden. It 'the expression in mental images of very long evolution that has reached a remarkable wealth of inside .. The garden can be an allegory of the ego when the center is a large tree or a fountain .. Very often represents per l’uomo la parte sessuale del corpo femminile. Ma, con l’allegoria del piccolo giardino paradisiaco, i canti religiosi dei mistici esprimono molto più del semplice amore e della sua incarnazione, essi cercano e lodano ardentemente il centro più intimo dell’anima”.
Il racconto dell’atelier 2002 di Caroline è di straordinario interesse. Esso è un assemblaggio di due componenti: un sintetico diario di bordo in forma di appunti, e la ricostruzione orale fatta a parecchi mesi di distanza nell’intervista con Rita. Colpiva in quest’ultima che, dopo tanto tempo e quando i muri della scuola erano ancora tutti coperti dai beautiful works of the boys, but the feelings with which Caroline recounted the experience was still so bad, evoked the desert, destructiveness, bankruptcy. While the eye is evident outside the originality and richness of a kind of initiatory path led in the most stormy, where driving is largely unaware of the extent of travel and yet is oriented with the instinct and sensibility , thereby giving the boys to develop a theme without disintegrating shocking.
Why the subject, of which Caroline - by his own admission - can not do without, and that leads to school at the beginning of the year despite his reflections on past experiences is one of the most powerful metaphors created by mankind, that fills religions and mythologies, fairy tales and legends arts literature: the garden. Submit it as an object-heavy, ten pounds of soil in a pot, put in the center of the studio - with a dozen teenagers from a guy who, for culture and life experience, has almost no ability to recognize, control and process emotions, gestures and immediately translated into action. The object is therefore attacked and damaged: the boys are unaware of the gardens - so say - but the symbolic capture of the object: sexuality, identity, growth, expansion and enclosure, secrecy ... .. in the apparent chaos of this year's art studio, it is always present, constantly re-emerges, ties together all stages of the path.
The vaso-garden is at the center of the war between the sexes, the rich texture of trade and implies that everyone can have fun reading, from the intimate relationship between emotions and colors, then shapes, all highly symbolic birds , trees, fountains and Earth, the object of a real war attack (the flower bed that makes us so ferocious). Why men claim the right to abstraction, from their separate table from which to launch their female characters "construction"? E ' just because girls draw better, or because the females have already learned to give form to the formless and they do not have the courage? And the fascinating figure of the taciturn Enzo, that mixing the colors for the girls acts as a ferry between the two fronts, and does the mysterious act of painting the towers and put them in the garden, thus forcing the teacher to put it back to the center: guy is probably the first to grasp the symbolic representation of all that takes place in quell'atelier painting around the vase-garden, and is very satisfied. Caroline writes that he moved.
The path culminates with Adam and Eve. Caroline writes: "Males females and very active, very few sexual jokes. It seems that the ancestors bring respect. "
In fact, Adam and Eve are not just ancestors, but the ancestors, and Eden is the archetype of the gardens. The size becomes sacred, here is the exciting action of the one that mixes all the colors in a gray mud and the appointment of "First Garden": the boy who may communicate on behalf of all the awareness of a transformation, beginning of which was the chaos of vague emotions. After the garden, it is possible that Caroline Gianluca entrusts the story of Eden, a young man who took the vows of Monaco is the most disturbing for adolescents, yet these ex-destroyers gardens can question him on the desire and temptation. How
wonder at year end, the question of Caroline on what had been the heart of their work, boys and girls respond in unison "The Garden"?
